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HANSARDDigital IDThere will not be surveillance, and we are not proposing that it will be mandatory to access all different types of services. That is just a wrong characterisation of what we are…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDWe have considered all those different aspects. It is right for the Prime Minister to say that it should be mandatory for right-to-work checks by the end of the Parliament to…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDNo, that is not what it will mean. The specific question was whether there would be sanctions or penalties on a person for not having one, and I said, “No, there won’t.” As is the…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI hope that I have explained why digital ID needs to be mandatory for right to work checks, and the benefits of that as one part of a toolkit of things to crack down on illegal…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe hon. Gentleman may not have heard me earlier, but I said that it will be designed and built in-house.13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDIt will be across the United Kingdom. As the right hon. Gentleman said, my right hon. Friend the Minister for Digital Government and Data was in Northern Ireland just last week,…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI am sure that my hon. Friend will send me the results of her survey, and I will look through them in detail. I believe that if we can show people that the Government are…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI do not really know what the question was there.13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDAbsolutely. That is one of the issues that has already been raised with me directly, along with people who are homeless, women who may be fleeing domestic violence, people who do…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDAt the risk of repeating myself, I think that trying to get Government services to talk to one another and work more effectively is what people want. The right hon. Gentleman…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDHow much this costs will depend on exactly how we design and build it. I believe that this will help tackle illegal immigration and help give people more control over their data.…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDAll those details will be set out in the consultation. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman and his constituents will respond to that. I will say once again that many other countries…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDI think there is a lot of misinformation out there about this proposal. It is not about surveillance; it is not about a police state—the police will not be able to stop people and…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital IDThe hon. Gentleman and I agree on a football club, but it would appear that we do not agree on digital ID. As the hon. Gentleman knows, my right hon. Friend the Minister for…13 Oct 2025HANSARD Points of OrderFurther to that point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I really apologise if we did not inform the hon. Gentleman that we were coming. That was an error and we will make sure that…13 Oct 2025HANSARDDigital Exclusion: Na h-Eileanan an IarThank you, Mr Speaker. I hope the House will bear with me, as I fear I may be losing my voice. Some people may be happy about that, but I will attempt to get through as best I…10 Sept 2025HANSARDDigital Exclusion: Na h-Eileanan an IarI thank my hon. Friend for his passion about this issue. He should come in and talk to Ministers, officials and Building Digital UK to set out what he thinks needs to happen,…10 Sept 2025HANSARDDigital Exclusion: Na h-Eileanan an IarIf the hon. Gentleman sends us the details, we will make that issue a top priority. As we build the country of the future through jobs, growth and transforming public services, we…10 Sept 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023: EffectivenessProtecting children from harmful content online is a top priority for this Government and for me personally, because it is a deeply concerning issue for parents and children…10 Sept 2025HANSARDOnline Safety Act 2023: EffectivenessI absolutely agree, and that is why I am determined to do everything necessary to remove illegal content and to protect children from online harms. Many years ago, when I was a…10 Sept 2025